IS
Yes I remember Discovery as having the first +1 channel, I'm pretty sure at one point they had a +1.5 too.... That's a 90 minute delay
NW
Thanks for the link Phil, I’ve been on the lookout for it for years. They ran this promo a lot during late 1998 on Discovery and Home & Leisure. I didn’t realise it was 3 minutes in length. I had taped only part of the commercial myself and put it on YouTube many moons ago. Finally nice to see it in full again.
Here's a three minute promo for Discovery's then-new digital channels in 1998. One of them was a timeshift 'plus one hour' service of the main Discovery Channel, the first of its kind. It'll never catch on.
Use https://stretch.site to fix the aspect ratio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oOOC9tT6_w
And if you're wondering what became of the rest:
Civilisations > Knowledge > History
Home & Leisure > Real Time > Closed and replaced by TLC.
Sci-Trek (what did that actually mean?) > Science
Travel & Adventure > Travel & Living > Closed.
Use https://stretch.site to fix the aspect ratio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oOOC9tT6_w
And if you're wondering what became of the rest:
Civilisations > Knowledge > History
Home & Leisure > Real Time > Closed and replaced by TLC.
Sci-Trek (what did that actually mean?) > Science
Travel & Adventure > Travel & Living > Closed.
Thanks for the link Phil, I’ve been on the lookout for it for years. They ran this promo a lot during late 1998 on Discovery and Home & Leisure. I didn’t realise it was 3 minutes in length. I had taped only part of the commercial myself and put it on YouTube many moons ago. Finally nice to see it in full again.
JA
At a time when digital TV and extra channels seemed exciting, and there actually seemed to be reasonable amounts of content. Not just the same few shows run over and over ad nauseum like it is now.
NJ
Neil Jones
Founding member
Not really convinced there had been any "reasonable amount of content" even back in the BSB Days.
Even the main terrestrials were repeating loads of stuff in the 1980s, so it probably followed that if we were to have five more channels or the promised land of millions of channels, it couldn't all be "new", some of it had to be repeats, just with different packaging.
Even the main terrestrials were repeating loads of stuff in the 1980s, so it probably followed that if we were to have five more channels or the promised land of millions of channels, it couldn't all be "new", some of it had to be repeats, just with different packaging.
VM
Don't know if anyone remembers the channel Trouble, they had a timeshift called Trouble Reloaded which was only +30 minutes rather than an hour.
Yes I remember Discovery as having the first +1 channel, I'm pretty sure at one point they had a +1.5 too.... That's a 90 minute delay
Don't know if anyone remembers the channel Trouble, they had a timeshift called Trouble Reloaded which was only +30 minutes rather than an hour.
NJ
Neil Jones
Founding member
DMAX launched a +2 channel. Which IIRC was also a +1.5 channel at some point too, before it finally decided to be a standard +1.
IS
I always liked the idea of having a +30 minute timeshift. If you just miss the start of a programme you don't have to wait 50 minutes for the beginning
SP
This BBC Cymru/Wales clip contains a bit of a curiosity, an unbranded BBC1 programme slide (at 2m06s)
How did it work for the nations (and to a certain extent the regions) to receive these slides? Did London send a box of 35mm slides out each week and the nation would somehow add their own branding?
How did it work for the nations (and to a certain extent the regions) to receive these slides? Did London send a box of 35mm slides out each week and the nation would somehow add their own branding?
TM
CBBC continuity from the last week for Angelica Ball and the (the heavily scaled back) TC10 in November 2006, before the temporary CSO period until the September 2007 relaunch:
I remember when I was very young, I saw the final CBBC One link presented by Angelica and in TC10 from the following Friday, not sure if anybody's got a copy of those links.
I remember when I was very young, I saw the final CBBC One link presented by Angelica and in TC10 from the following Friday, not sure if anybody's got a copy of those links.
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IS
BBC White City as it was then
Is the "CBeebies HQ" actually White City One?
BBC White City as it was then
HC
Although it wasn't actually broadcast from there. In fact, wasn't the Nicky Campbell/Julia Bradbury fronted era of Watchdog the only programme to use that as an office/studio set up in that building?
Im sure something in the back of my mind says for a while, some of the Cbeebies studio links were done at Teddington Studios, before it was felled by the wrecking ball of fate.
Im sure something in the back of my mind says for a while, some of the Cbeebies studio links were done at Teddington Studios, before it was felled by the wrecking ball of fate.